Delaware County Police Officer Helps Deliver Baby Day After Another Helped Deliver Twins

MARPLE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) — It was the call to police than an officer from Delaware County is never going to forget. A Marple Township patrolman made a special delivery Thursday — a baby to be exact — one day after another officers from his unit helped deliver twins.

Little Peyton-Joy Yost is doing well now.

“I love her I didn’t want to give her to the EMT hospital,” father Robert Yost said.

But it was a hectic couple of minutes for her parents when her mom suddenly went into labor Thursday at their Marple Township home on 4th Avenue; her dad called 911, officers arriving before medics.

And there’s another Marple Township officer who helped deliver a baby the day before, on Wednesday. But that delivery was more complicated.

When Officer Haughey arrived to a home on Harvest Lane, he found a woman pregnant with twins who were a couple months premature. Haughey immediately thought of his four kids and as a parent, he worried for the babies’ health.

“We were able to do what we can for him until we got him to the hospital,” Haughey said. “When you’re looking at the baby that small your heart goes out to them.”

The delivery of one of the babies was successful. The other twin decided to wait for the hospital, and on Friday, Officer Haughey was told both were doing okay.